Celtic Fairy Tales, The Sprightly Tailor, sentence 1
A sprightly tailor was employed by the great Macdonald, in his castle at Saddell, in order to make the laird a pair of trews, used in olden time.
Who acts: great Macdonald · What happens: employ, make, use · To what, where: sprightly tailor, castle, laird, pair
This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Sprightly Tailor. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (great Macdonald), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 tailor | det |
| 2 | sprightly | sprightly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 tailor | amod |
| 3 | tailor | tailor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 employed | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 employed | aux:pass |
| 5 | employed | employ | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | by | by | ADP | _ | 9 Macdonald | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Macdonald | det |
| 8 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 Macdonald | amod |
| 9 | Macdonald | Macdonald | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 employed | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 castle | punct |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 castle | case |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 castle | nmod:poss |
| 13 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 employed | obl |
| 14 | at | at | ADP | _ | 15 Saddell | case |
| 15 | Saddell | Saddell | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 castle | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 make | punct |
| 17 | in | in | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 20 make | mark |
| 18 | order | order | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 in | fixed |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 make | mark |
| 20 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 5 employed | parataxis |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 laird | det |
| 22 | laird | laird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 make | obj |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 pair | det |
| 24 | pair | pair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 make | obj |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 trews | case |
| 26 | trews | trew | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 pair | nmod |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 used | punct |
| 28 | used | use | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 24 pair | acl |
| 29 | in | in | ADP | _ | 31 time | case |
| 30 | olden | olden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 time | amod |
| 31 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 used | obl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 employed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | employ | past · passive | the great Macdonald | a sprightly tailor | tailor's castle at Saddell | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme | |||
| 2 | make | to-infinitive | the laird | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset laird=Beneficiary pair=Product | |||||
| 3 | use | participle | a pair of trews not said here | time | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7885 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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